Ben Mezrich: "A girl who I'd gone to college with said, I want you to meet a group of friends of mine.
And they were hanging out at this bar, and I went there and they had all this money, and it was $100 bills.
And you never saw $100 bills in Boston at the time.
They just nobody had $100 bills.
I mean, in New York you have $100 bills.
In DC you probably have hundred dollar bills.
But in Boston there was none of them.
And so I couldn't figure out why.
And they invited me to Vegas.
So I essentially started going with the MIT blackjack team every weekend to Vegas.
And I was blown away.
This is the best story I'd ever seen.
It just happened to be a real thing and not one of the fiction I had been writing.
So I ended up writing that as my first nonfiction."
SUNDAY: America's Book Club with Ben Mezrich – 6pm ET on C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/americas-book-club/guest/31/ben-mezrich-
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